Disturbed Body Image

I've been promoting good/better health through wise(r) eating choices and improved eating habits. Sounds boring to many for sure. I was just wondering whether you believe that hippies have a healthy or disturbed image of their body.

I have known hippies who were careful about their food consumption and others who could care less. Same goes for outward appearance. Just a question I thought I'd pose.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4065/is_200210/ai_n9103389

Carpenito (1997) identified body image as one of the components of self-concept and noted that a disturbance in self-concept may result from changes in a person's body image. Self-concept is influenced by a person's perception of the way other people see him/her, and this involves body image.


According to Sundeen, Stuart, Rankin, and Cohen (1981), body concept, or the body image, "is the sum of the conscious and unconscious attitudes the individual has toward his body. It includes present and past perceptions, as well as feelings about size, function, appearance, and potential" (p. 51).

Both the structuring and the maintenance of body image are part of a dynamic process that is flexible and continuous, starting with a person's relations with him/herself and with the environment. Building a concept of body image based on socially constructed ideals excludes or does not take into account people with alterations in form and function resulting from traumas and illnesses. This is reinforced daily by the media and in social relations.

 

i don't have a positive body image and when i was younger battled with an eating disorder. i'm not sure it ever goes completely away. being full-figured at this point in my life, i feel undervalued as a person by society. i can diet & exercise all day and not drop a pound because of some of the medications i take. it's enough to make a person resort to drastic measures. i think if you're overweight in our society you're seen as lazy and not caring about yourself. many times people make snap judgements without bothering to think any further than the surface of the situation.

 

My body image is "who cares?" According to some statistical crap I'm overweight, but quite frankly I feel fine and don't really care enough to slim down. It's just meat when all's said and done.

 

I had an eating disorder in 8th grade...
because my mom called me fat like everyday...and I wasn't even fat!...
Then when I got real thin and she bitched about that too!
That's when I learned I couldn't please her so I stopped trying.
She still calls me fat.

But I don't care.

I've got my curves and I've learned to love them. ^_^

 

I eat whatever and whenever I want..
I have a fast metabolism, so its not often that I gain a lot of weight

 

Hey,
I don’t think promoting those things is boring at all it needs to be done. I don’t know anyone with a truly healthy body image.